My affinity for stolid brick buildings, whether factories or dwellings, has been stated repeatedly in FNY. Greenpoint is one of those Brooklyn neighborhoods that is changing rapidly, with glassy residential towers emerging ever more frequently since a zoning change in 2005. The area used to be a sleepy manufacturing-residential region, of which today’s building on Lorimer, just off Manhattan Avenue facing McCarren Park, is a representative. one of their more popular products was Royledge shelf liner, used to create decorative borders on shelf edges.
The building once housed Royal Lace Paper Works. One of their more popular products was Royledge shelf liner, used to create decorative borders on shelf edges.“Lace paper” describes a variety of decorative paper products resembling lace. Paper Lace, of course, recounted The Night Chicago Died.
At times like this, I turn to the Indispensable Walter Grutchfield, whose powers of research vastly eclipse my own. He recounts that Royal was in business as early as 1899 at 468 Lorimer, where the Brooklyn Eagle reported that a fire broke out. A second fire further devastated the paper works in 1912, which had by then moved here to 842 Lorimer. The company was acquired by Standard Packaging Corporation, Ft. Wayne, Indiana, in 1951.
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2/27/23
6 comments
I remember this building in Greenpoint.
This is an old favorite of mine. I hope it becomes something useful before it becomes rubble.
Huh?!? The way you worded ” He recounts that Royal was in business as early as 1899 in this very building, 468 Lorimer,”, implies that the building in the photo is at that address. 468 Lorimer was nowhere near McCarren Park. It was located on the SE corner of Grand and Lorimer. This building is 842-846 Lorimer.
Yeah my mistake. People make mistakes.
Thank you for this. Do
Many times we pass buildings that at one time had purpose or held a business that is o no o longer relevant. It is great to have the history’s
It is quite a handsome old building, and what with the surrounding parks and gardens in that area, one would think it would have some value to developers (depending on its structural condition, I
suppose)…